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(EU)Archduke Franz Ferdinand Shot in Sarajevo
on this day the Archduke of Austria Hungary was shot by Gavrilo Princip. This event is often considered the spark for world war 1. which would grow because of entangling alliances. -
Jul 30, 1914. Russia Mobilizes
The Germans then warn Russia on its mobilization and begin to mobilize themselves. July 30, 1914 - Austrian warships bombard Belgrade, capital of Serbia. July 31, 1914 - Reacting to the Austrian attack on Serbia, Russia begins full mobilization of its troops. -
sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
A German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned steamship Lusitania killing 1,128 people including 128 Americans on May 7 1915. The disaster set off a chain of events that led to the U.S. entering World War I. -
Wilson Re-elected (1916)
Woodrow Wilson became the first Democratic president since Andrew Jackson to be elected to two consecutive terms of office when he defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes in the 1916 Presidential Election. This election took place during ww1 and the Mexican revelation war and Wilson requested to go to war. -
Zimmerman note
it was a telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 -
America Enters the War (1917)
In December 1917 Wilson requested and Congress approved a declaration of war against Austria Hungary. The resolution declaring war against Austria-Hungary was adopted unanimously by the Senate, and was approved by the House of Representatives by a vote of 350 to 1. -
Congress passes the Espionage Acts (1917)
the Sedition Act of 1918, which made it a federal offense to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the Constitution, the government, the American uniform, or the flag. The government prosecuted over 2,100 people under these acts. -
Spanish Influenza 1918
was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people around the world, including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic. -
Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent,
